BIB_ID
239560
Accession number
MA 5141.64
Creator
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Display Date
1919 Sept. 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 30.8 and 35.3 cm
Notes
A penciled note at the bottom of the manuscript in Sassoon's hand ""Written at Harlech. Given to R. Graves. Sold by him & bought back from Dulau."
Sassoon has replaced the original title "A Bit Daft" with "Limitations."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
Sassoon has replaced the original title "A Bit Daft" with "Limitations."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Being an autograph draft of a poem of fifty lines which became a poem of forty lines in its published form; the first line in its published form became "If you could crowd them into forty lines."
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